Run the Jewels
After the bereaved cancellation of her set at last year’s Free Press Summer Fest, (Rest in Peace) Lorde made a long-awaited stop in Houston to promote her newest album Melodrama. What suddenly became one of my favorite performances I have personally witnessed, started off promising yet notably strange. Opening for Lorde were two extremely contrasting artists: […]
Coverage by Waylon O’Day and Junior Fernandez The third and final day of the annual Austin City Limits Music Festival was arguably the best, not just because of the stacked lineup for the day, but the weather finally decided to give festival goers a reprieve from the 90+ degree days with little to no […]
Atlanta rapper Killer Mike and Brooklyn producer El-P pursued solo work for 20 years before 2013, when they became rap duo Run the Jewels. The two first worked together on Killer Mike’s album R.A.P. Music (2012), which El-P produced. This could even be seen as a proto-RTJ record, as before the song “JoJo’s Chillin’” Killer […]
Throughout the past few years, Coog Radio has sent me to several festivals. They have sent me to Fun Fun Fun Fest, Austin City Limits, Day for Night and several more. None of those festivals come close to anything I experienced at Buku. Buku is more than just your typical music festival; it has […]
http://gty.im/579688654 As solo artists Killer Mike and El-P tout impressive resumes, but together they make a pretty dynamic duo.
Coverage by Waylon O’Day Raj Radia Wow, so the day finally came, the much anticipated Sound on Sound Fest went off without with some slight hitches. Although these are to be expected when you are starting off what looks to be, and what I personally hope is the beginning of an amazing new Texas music […]
http://gty.im/484985562 After meeting in 2011, Killer Mike and EI-P decided to tour together and the rest, as they say, is history.
After last year’s festival, which was the first, it seemed almost impossible to top the inaugural lineup which included names like New Order, who hadn’t performed in the city for twenty years, or Death Grips who are notorious flakes when it comes to highly anticipated appearances. However, the guys at Day for Night have managed […]
Run the Jewels is a fairly new American hip hop duo composed of the rappers EI-P and Killer Mike. Originally this EI-P helped produce Killer Mike’s album R.A.P. Music. in 2012 and Killer Mike appeared in EI-P’s own album called Cancer 4 Cure. A year after these releases, they combined their talents to create Run […]
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